I felt the worst had happened to Brown Rooster. For those of you that haven’t been introduced to Brown Rooster yet, he is one of the two...

It’s been three months since we spontaneously agreed to provide a home for six chicks that were hatched out in a friend’s grade school...

As much as I love my roosters, and as much as they love the ladies, it was time to move Reuben and Ramon into their own bachelor pad....

I’ve known for a couple of months that one of our four Speckled Sussex hens was not doing well, and she finally left us this week. I’m...

Now that we’ve gotten Millie through her broody phase by letting her hatch out a few chicks, we’ve got a couple more broody girls at the...

That’s where my little Sweet Pea is now. She left us this evening after a few weeks of us trying our best to nurse her back to health. I...

I had thought about calling this post “Crazy Chicken Lady” because I’m about to divulge the lengths I will go to for one of my favorite...

I have exciting news to report – our very own Millie hatched out some baby chicks! You may recall I had written about Millie wanting to...

I’ve learned a lot about rooster love in the last year, a bit too much perhaps, and one thing I can say is that love hurts! We currently...

We lost one of the good ones this week. Henry was the pint-sized ambassador of 5R Farm. He was one of our two banty roosters, the...

It’s been a long time coming, but I finally decided to rehome one of our roosters – Ringo, our silver gray dorking. Now that the roosters...

We’ve had several weeks of freezing temperatures in the mornings at 5R Farm this winter. When I look out the window in the morning and...

I introduced you to Rooster Cogburn (aka Reuben) and Ramon, the two highest ranking roosters in our flock, in the previous Boys of 5R...

I had to give up my first rooster two and a half years ago when our backyard chicken Ramona turned into Ramon, and ever since then I...

Well it’s official, we have our first broody hen. For those uninitiated in the ways of all things chicken, a broody hen is one that has...

The chicken flock is 6 months old, and that means one thing: eggs! Most of the young ladies have started laying, and we are getting over...

We’ve got another chicken recuperating in the kitchen – this time it’s little Sweet Pea, one of my favorites of the new girls. Actually...

You may recall that in addition to the 25 chicks we bought for the farm, we also bought five fancy breed chickens. These fancy chickens...

Today was a very sad day at 5R Farm. After a month of trying to nurse Ruby back to health, it was finally time to say goodbye and have...

Henny Penny, one of the cute red cochin banty chickens we intended to keep in our backyard in Portland, started crowing at 5:30 in the...